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A little late for #yule, but we are arguably still in the #yuletide season. I found this beautiful #song on #youtube and thought I would share it.
The #oakking and #hollyking lore is part of many #neopagan traditions. Here's some info about it here: […]
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Paranormal Folklore: The Holly King and Oak King... ❄️☀️
#paranormal #folklore #hollyking #oakking #supernatural #urbanlegends #cryptids #myth #winter #MerryChristmas #GodJul #Yule
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Second Night of #Yule: #Solstice & the Wild Hunt - The Fall of the Holly King and Rise of the Oak King.
Twice a year, at the solstices, the #OakKing and the #HollyKing symbolically “battle".
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#legends #folktales #history
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A bronze colored plaque with red and green highlights of the Oak King. Fall leaves from my neighborhood surround him. A stag leg bone and a piece of Oregon obsidian are also in the pic.
I was postering last week and drove out to a nearby town to poster at a witch store. And when I saw this, I knew why I drove so far. I don't buy a lot of stuff, but I'm working with the Oak King more often these days. He's settling in on my fall workspace before I place him. #WitchSky #OakKing
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The Oak & Holly King r the gods of the long & short days, who annually kill each other for their half of the reign. Currently, they’re not killing each other, it’s too early. They’re instead strolling & watching the harvest come in; with Holly, the god of the dark days, looking with stoic interest to his right. He’s depicted here as slender, with sharp angular features, narrow antler that resembles a tree in the winter without its leaves & long hair tied back & whipping in the breeze. His garments are of a dark academia fashion. The Oak king has a much border frame, with wide antler, a barrel chest, long braided hair, a short beard, the ears of a stag & an ample belly, however not as ample as it once was. Holly’s growing power does dwindle him, but his attitude will not betray the fact; he will not give Holly the satisfaction. So he is mischievous in his countenance, wearing an open shirt & whispering some off hand gossip to Holly as he too watches the goings on to their right.
At least the Holly King is reborn today, because please, someone, do something about this sunny fucker.
#summersolstice #litha #oakking #hollyking #art #mythology #pagan #folklore
A head and shoulders sketch of the Oak king: a large, summery, bearded god with huge antlers, the ears of a deer and a gold crown of oak leaves. He wears a cloak loosely around his shoulders which is secured by the weight of a wide gold neck piece featuring the tree of life. He also wears a belt over his left shoulder, embossed with oak leaves and has more gold worn higher up on his muscular neck, in the form of a torc with two acorns as the ends. It is only just visible under his long hair that falls thickly over his right shoulder and is secured on its end by a metal tube, once more made of engraved gold. His white eyes are almost more intelligent than he is often prone to act on, but his raised eyebrow and smirking mouth hint at a more honest representation of this gods flirtatious, smug and impulsive nature.
Happy Summer Solstice & Litha ☀️
Here’s the slut that’s that executing the season like he has a score to settle.
#summersolstice #oakking #folklore #mythology #celtic #fantasy #pagan #art
A sketch of a large, rotund and muscular Celtic god. He wears a fur pelt around his hips secured with a belt embossed with oak leaves. He also has a sword belt keeping his sword on his back and a cloak over his shirtless shoulders, held in place by a large gold neck piece with the tree of life engraved in it. A pair of huge antlers come out of a head of long hair adorned with a gold oak leaf crown. He smiles broadly through a short beard at the mass of little birds that cover him, sitting on his antlers and outstretched arms with open palms full of seed. This whole scene is lit with radiant warm sunlight.
#Litha & #SummerSolstice today
The day in which the Oak King is at his strongest & it fucken shows.
But honestly, given the state of things, he is right to kick our arse.
Expect more of these today,
I am not one for the heat, but I do love this lil shit.
#oakking #celtic #mythology #folklore #art
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#OakKing
#SummerSolstice
#Oak
#Druidsky
#Druid
#SpiralDance
Whatever you need to say, let the arms of the trees hold you!
The time of the #OakKing end is near! The #Solstice marks the return of the #HollyKing!
Get your #Solar #magic going. The #sun approaches the longest day!!!
#Druidsky
#Druidstuff
If you see this post a sword ⚔️
#art #hollyking #oakking #fantasy #folklore #mythology
Green Man Celtic Decor Rug, Pagan Nature God Art Carpet, Green Man Tree Spirit Sculpture Decor, Mythology Inspired Rug, Celtic folklore mythology wall art rug
#celtic
#pagan
#wiccan
#folklore
#nature
#treeSpirit
#wallArt
#mythology
#forestGuardian
#oakKing
#herne
#beltane
#celticArt
#Samhain
It’s great when my work goes to other parts of the world. This Oak King is off to Australia today. Happy Monday everyone, look after each other in this scary time. #witchsky #occultsky #pagansky #oakking
Yule King
The #Legend of the #YuleKing
. . . It was a time when the frost covered the earth . . . and the wind howled through the trees, whispering of the old ways. In those days, there lived two mighty kings. . .the Yule King and the #OakKing.
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#yule #myth #stories
Happy winter solstice #yuletideseason #HollyKing #PaganBlessings the true Christmas that the Christians nicked from the #pagans days now getting longer #SummerOnTheWay #OakKing
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❄️ #FairyTaleTuesday 🌞
On the Winter Solstice, The Holly King reigns supreme, enveloping the world in cold and stillness. At the Spring Equinox, his brother, The Oak King, takes the crown, signaling the arrival of summer's warmth and vibrancy. 🌿 #FairyTaleFlash #WinterSolstice #Hollyking #Oakking
The Oak King and Holly King, symbols of seasonal cycles, battle for dominance. Oak rules summer; Holly reigns in winter, marking nature's eternal rhythm.
#witchonthebayou #witchsky #pagansky #spiritualsky #oakking #hollyking #winter #summer
The oak king is coming along nicely
Waiting on some moss to arrive
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A head and shoulders sketch of The Holly King: a stoic, thin, wintery man with sharp antlers, a crown of silver holly leaves and a cold bored stare. His black hair is salt and peppered and falls in a long straight pony tail over his shoulder. His shoulders are also adorned with a wrap which is secured with a silver diamond, on top of which a black fur cloak sits, secured with holly brooches and silver chains. His posture is stiff and tall, an attribute aided by his metal neck armour, circling his shoulders from the collar bone to the neck which it corsets around in a firm fit. It is engraved with spikes of holly leaves.
A sketch of The Holly King, God of the short cold days, with sharp antlers like winter trees and a silver crown of holly leaves. He’s dressed in medieval garb which includes a cloak wrapped around his shoulders, on top of which sits a thick black fur cloak, fastened to his shoulders with a silver holly brooches & chains draping across his chest. Under this he wears a surcoat over a long sleeved tunic which is close fitting on his thin arms and wrist. These 2 garments are collected by a wide belt that cinches his narrow waist, on top of which hangs 2 more leather belts, loose around his hips. The most notable feature of the kings attire is his neck armour, whose metal circles his shoulders from the collar bone to the neck which it corsets around in a firm fit. It’s engraved with sharp spikes of holly leaves & makes his posture tall & austere. The king has a calculating expression as he studies the sharpness of his sword that he holds before him. He is going to kill the Oak King with it.
Two gods, The Holly King and The Oak King, twisted around each other, back to back, as they stab both themselves and their opposite through their own chests and on into the back of the other with long swords decorated in a fashion to suit their own symbolism. The Oak King is in a warm palette, with a torc around his neck and bands of decorative leather and gold around his wrists and huge biceps. His hair is long and red, flowing around him under a pair of huge antlers and a coronet of gold oak leaves. The Holly King is in a dark, desaturated, cold palette , with a dark pelt over his shoulders and a silver chain and broaches holding his midnight blue cloak in place. His hair is long & black, his antlers r narrow & sharp. His coronet is made of silver holly leaves. The Oak King is laughing and the Holly King’s lips are parted but he look composed despite the both of them holding the bloody sword tips that are spearing out of their chests.
The new king, as of last night 🗡️
Hope you all had a fun Halloween and or Samhain 👻🍂🌾 and wishing you all rest and comfort in the dark seasons.
#halloween #samhain #celtic #pagan #mythology #hollyking #oakking #art #folklore
If you see this, post a bird! 🐦
I really want to draw more of the Holly and the Oak King with their birdy followers.
Did I mention that the birds used to be people?
#art #Oakking #Pagan #Celtic
Bill holding a mug with the Oak King on it, getting ready to drink some coffee.
Spring Equinox! The Holly King mug has returned to the cabinet and the Oak King has returned.
#springequinox #OakKing
